Zakir Abdul Karim Naik was born on 18 October 1965 in Mumbai, Maharastra, India. He attended St. Peters High School in Mumbai. Later he enrolled at Kishinchand Chellaram College, before studying medicine at Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital and later the University of Mumbai, where he obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS).His wife, Farhat Naik, works for the womens section of the IRF.In 1991 he started working in the field of Dawah, and founded the IRF. Naik says he was inspired by Ahmed Deedat, an Islamic preacher, having met him in 1987. (Naik is sometimes referred to as Deedat plus, a label given to him by Deedat himself.) Naik says that his goal is to concentrate on the educated Muslim youth who have become apologetic about their own religion and have started to feel the religion is outdated. He considers it a duty of every Muslim to remove perceived misconceptions about Islam and to counter what he views as the Western medias anti-Islamic bias in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. Naik has said that despite the strident anti-Islam campaign, 34,000 Americans have embraced Islam from September 2001 to July 2002. He says Islam is a religion of reason and logic, and that the Quran contains 1000 verses relating to science, which he says explains the number of Western converts. Some of his articles are published in magazines such as Islamic Voice.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:40:03 +0000
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